There are many challenges that come with preparing for and responding to a ransomware attack. Ransomware gangs are constantly changing their tactics in order to get to your organization's data. Therefore, as the ransomware landscape continues to evolve, so too must the preparations and responses of businesses.

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You know how we love to pass along guides and resources that can help you improve your organization's privacy and security programs. Today, we are going to review a recent resource guide put out by HHS' ASPR TRACIE office called Healthcare System Cybersecurity - Readiness and Response Considerations. This guide is packed with very helpful tips, best practices, and resources surrounding cybersecurity and responding to cyber incidents. And it's FREE!

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Social media is full of people who speak "confidently" about topics that they simply do not fully understand. HIPAA is one of those topics. Today, we are covering 7 HIPAA facts that we hope will set the record straight about frequently misunderstood HIPAA topics.

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Learn 'tricks of the trade' from a real social engineering tester. We interview William Price of Cyberx.tech to learn how they are able to successfully penetrate a company's defenses and get access to their most critical information. How likely would your organization be vulnerable to these same methods?

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Have you ever heard tech folks refer to a computer problem as an ID10T error? You probably thought it was some highly technical term geeks use. Well, it's not and today we are going to talk about a couple posts and articles where folks' are flying their ID10T flag high and proud. And hopefully try to prevent you from making an ID10T error.

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It's that time of year again. Time to start preparing for National Cybersecurity Awareness Month coming up in October. Do Your Part. #BeCyberSmart is the theme again this year. Be a Cybersecurity Awareness Month Champion for your business, your community and your family.

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Managing your vendors, or your supply chain, has become increasingly more important these days. As we've seen in the news just in the last several months, data and system breaches can come as a result of the vendors you work with. So, we felt like it was time to revisit this topic by reviewing the recent update to the HIC SCRiM guide that includes 6 steps for vendor management.

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Every year we cover the most recent report released on the cost of a data breach. No surprise from this year's report that the cost continues to rise. And healthcare breaches cost the most across all industries. Listen in as we go through IBM's Cost of Data Breach Report 2021.

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There's a new data breach notification bill in Congress that will affect the business community as a whole, not just healthcare. It will create a new data breach disclosure requirement for federal agencies, federal contractors and critical infrastructure companies. It's time to let folks know when breaches happen. We can't protect ourselves from things we don't know about.

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There is so much happening in the cyber world today that we couldn't decide on just one topic to cover in this episode. So, we will be jumping around and covering a lot of different cyber topics, hence the title of the podcast, Cyber Sqwerl. So, listen fast folks… we've got a lot to cover.

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